Here’s some pre-camera conversation between Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, City Councilman Curtis Jones and others talking before they went before the 6 p.m. cameras to talk storm-cleanup.

Earlier this month, Republican nominee for Philadelphia mayor Karen Brown told me she went to D.C. to meet with Pa. officials and “discuss her ‘vision paper,’ a work that’s still in progress about breaking the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers union.”…

A few weeks back, I grabbed lunch with Ben Mannes, an affable guy who wanted to talk about his group’s Citywide Forum on Public Integrity. Expected to speak are 1st Deputy City Controller Harvey Rice, Special Agent John Roberts of…

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie must really think you’re stupid. How else could his release of a single calendar entry, under the threat of lawsuit from Gawker and the NJ ACLU, qualify as providing the public with the information they need…

And I quote (from a statement he just released) … Tonight President Obama laid out very clearly and powerfully the consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling and deal with our deficit in a long-term, balanced manner. The fact…

State Sen. Larry Farnese’s office just issued a release reacting to the release of a Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission report regarding drilling in the commonwealth. Considering the governor refuses to even entertain the thought of imposing a tax on…

Per the New York Times’s Media Decoder blog, “Gawker, the popular blog based in New York, is going to court to investigate the relationship between the Fox News chairman, Roger Ailes, and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. … The…